Join informal conversations with experts, aficionados, librarians, archivists, curators, historic preservation specialists, historians, and collectors. Topics run the gamut from commercial fishing to historic houses, to the latest acquisitions, collections, or publications. Each moderated conversation is roughly an hour long. Each program will be recorded and will be available on the Museum's YouTube page within 4 weeks. Free and open to the public on Zoom.
upcoming Local History Guilds
past Local History Guilds
Join Dr. Naomi Slipp, Dr. Rachel Stephens, and Dr. Renée Ater, for an important conversation about the power of sculpture in public spaces and institutions, the legacies of white supremacy and histories of enslavement, and the landscape of commemoration in the United States.
Join us for an exciting Local History Guild conversation with New Bedford artist Carl Simmons and photography historian Jesse Dritz. Simmons will discuss how he composes New Bedford views, juxtaposing historic photographs by Lewis Hine with views from today.
A conversation with Ymelda Rivera Laxton and multi-disciplinary artist and curator Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss (Niuean/Maori) about a Niuean barkcloth in the NBWM collection and Twiss’ journey as a contemporary practitioner of Hiapo.
Virtual discussion focusing on the complex human relationships with seals over millennia and how that’s changed in a variety of ways over the past 4,000 years and continues to evolve as seals rebound in our region.
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